Senior Regulatory Compliance & Ethics Program Administrator Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare. To better serve our customers, we are fostering a culture that emphasizes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership. We are dedicated to creating an environment where employees can excel and where top talent is attracted, retained, and thrives. As a testament to these efforts, Premera has been recognized on the 2025 America’s Dream Employers list. Newsweek honored Premera as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion, and America’s Greatest Workplaces For Mental Well-Being, and Forbes ranked Premera among America’s Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time. For Premera, Regulatory Compliance is not just a control function, but also an enabling one. Our members expect that their healthcare benefits provide access to high-quality, cost-effective care that complies with all applicable regulations. Regulatory Compliance works closely with our internal teams to ensure that our offerings can meet the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders. The Senior Regulatory Compliance & Ethics (RC&E) Program Administrator takes a lead role in the development, implementation, oversight and monitoring of Premera Blue Cross’s Compliance & Ethics Program. In this dynamic role, the Senior RC&E Administrator is an advocate on behalf of Premera with external stakeholders to support our corporate goals, and partners with Legislative Affairs and Legal to guide internal Premera teams on the implementation of new and changing laws and regulations. What You’ll Do: – Assess, analyze, and track regulatory agency activities and work with the business to develop the Company’s advocacy position in response. Advise the business on the implications, serving as the subject matter expert regarding defined regulatory and compliance matters. Formulate and carry out strategies to lobby for Premera’s interests and in furtherance of Premera’s long term goals with regulators, government entities, private entities, and interest groups. Assist the business and third parties with the implementation of new and changing laws and regulations. – Plan and conduct large, complex and/or multi-functional compliance monitoring reviews to verify compliance with established policies and applicable regulations. Conduct reviews of business processes to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations. – Manage inquiries and exams from state and federal regulators. Develop and mature relationships with regulators to serve as the “face” of Premera. – Act as an internal consultant to identify key regulatory and compliance issues and recommend informed, actionable and realistic solutions based on regulatory/policy/compliance research. Where needed prepare written reports to document findings and issue Corrective Action Plans, tracking them through to resolution. – Effectively interact with all levels of management, altering communication style where needed to ensure comprehension; possess extensive understanding of cross-organizational operations to provide thorough, accurate and timely analysis of regulatory and compliance questions in an easy-to-understand format. – Take a lead role on the company’s Advocacy Committee and, in that capacity, distribute and collect comments, and draft consolidated responses to regulatory agencies concerning proposed regulations from Committee members, business owners, and other subject matter experts. – Take a lead role to support the Compliance & Ethics Committee to push compliance and ethics initiatives through to completion. – Serve as the regulatory and/or compliance expert and strategic thinking partner on cross-departmental workgroups; build relationships across the company to ensure visibility of regulatory and compliance impacts and issues and increase trust in RCE as a partner for proactive problem-solving. – Develop ongoing education, tools and resources for all levels of management and employees to allow for self-service research where requirements are straightforward. Create tools and other educational documents to help explain complex topics. Advise and collaborate with employees at all levels to promote a culture of ethical behavi